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NextSilicon’s Maverick-2 Accelerator Reportedly Outperforms Nvidia GPUs in Energy Efficiency, New RISC-V Chip in Development

NextSilicon has unveiled performance benchmarks indicating its Maverick-2 accelerator significantly outperforms Nvidia GPUs and Intel CPUs in energy efficiency. The company also announced development of Arbel, a new RISC-V test chip built on TSMC’s 5nm technology.

Breakthrough Performance Claims

Israeli chip startup NextSilicon has disclosed architecture and performance details for its Maverick-2 accelerator, with reports indicating it can outperform GPUs from Nvidia and CPUs from Intel. According to the company’s announcement, the Maverick-2 represents what sources describe as the world’s first Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA), featuring a novel computing architecture designed specifically for high-performance computing artificial intelligence (HPC-AI) applications.